Immunology at a Glance provides a user-friendly overview of the body’s defence mechanisms. Ideal from day one of a medical, biomedical or life science course, the text begins with a basic overview of both adaptive and innate immunity, before progressing to applied immunological concepts, which look at what happens when things go wrong, and how, in clinical medicine, each body system can be affected by immunity.

Each double-page spread corresponds to a typical lecture and diagrammatically summarises core concepts in immunology, through accessible schematic diagrams on left-hand pages, with key points concisely summarised on the right-hand page. There are also self-assessment essay questions so you can test your knowledge.

New for this 10th edition:
•Thoroughly updated and reorganised chapters offer greater clarity and easier understanding for those new to the subject
•New chapters on cytokine receptors and ‘Immunology in the Laboratory’
•A completely re-written section on autoimmunity
•A brand new companion website featuring self-assessment questions and PowerPoint slides of images from the book, ideal for teaching and revision at www.ataglanceseries.com/immunology

Immunology at a Glance is the ideal companion for anyone about to start a new course in immunology and will appeal to medical and biomedical science students. Perfect for exam preparation, it provides the concepts and frameworks you need to succeed in your exam.

✤✤ Provides the key immunology concepts and frameworks the new medical student needs
✤✤ Presents an overview of the core concepts in immunology, through accessible schematic diagrams on left
hand pages, with key points concisely summarised on the right hand page
✤✤ Includes new chapters on manipulation of immunity and immunological lab methods, and more
information on cytokines
✤✤ Features a new companion website at www.ataglanceseries.com/immunology with a suite of selfassessment
True/False Questions and Answers, and fully downloadable illustrations Preface 
Acknowledgements 

Note on the ninth edition 

How to use this book 

Further reading 

Immunity

1 The scope of immunology 

2 Innate and adaptive immune mechanisms 

3 Recognition and receptors: the keys to immunity 

4 Cells involved in immunity: the haemopoietic system

Innate immunity

5 Receptors of the innate immune system 

6 Complement 

7 Acute inflammation 

8 Phagocytic cells and the reticuloendothelial system 

9 Phagocytosis 

Adaptive immunity

(i) The molecular basis

10 Evolution of recognition molecules: the immunoglobulin superfamily 

11 The major histocompatibility complex 

12 The T-cell receptor 

13 Antibody diversification and synthesis 

14 Antibody structure and function 

(ii) The cellular basis

15 Lymphocytes 

16 Primary lymphoid organs and lymphopoiesis 

17 Secondary lymphoid organs and lymphocyte traffic 

(iii) The adaptive immune response

18 Antigen processing and presentation 

19 The antibody response 

20 Antigen–antibody interaction and immune complexes 

21 Cell-mediated immune responses 

(iv) Regulation

22 Tolerance 

23 Cell communication and cytokines

24 The cytokine network

25 Immunity, hormones and the brain 

Potentially useful immunity

26 Antimicrobial immunity: a general scheme 

27 Immunity to viruses 

28 HIV and AIDS

29 Immunity to bacteria 

30 Immunity to fungi and ectoparasites 

31 Immunity to protozoa 

32 Immunity to worms 

Undesirable effects of immunity

33 Immunodeficiency

34 Harmful immunity: a general scheme 

35 Allergy and anaphylaxis 

36 Immune complexes, complement and disease 

37 Chronic and cell-mediated inflammation 

38 Autoimmune disease

39 Transplant rejection 

Altered immunity

40 Immunosuppression 

41 Immunostimulation and vaccination 

Immunity in health and disease

42 Cancer immunology

43 Immunity and clinical medicine 

44 Investigating immunity 

45 Immunology in the laboratory

46 Out of the past:: evolution of immune mechanisms

47 Into the future: immunology in the age of genomics 

Self-assessment

Self-assessment questions 

Answers 

Appendices

Appendix I: Comparative sizes and molecular weights 

Appendix II: Landmarks in the history of immunology and some  unsolved problems 

Appendix III: CD classification 

Index
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